Learning from the best: palaeo-Inuit novice flintknapping on southern Baffin Island

• Main Author: Hood, Elenore Grace
• Other Authors: Milne, S. Brooke, Oakes, Jill (Environment and Geography), Park, Robert (Anthropology)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Baffin Island; lithic quarry; chert; novice; flintknapping; field processing model; Palaeo-Inuit; Pre-Dorset; Dorset; lithic; quarry; apprenticeship; Arctic; Beck; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/36403

This thesis investigates two aspects of Palaeo-Inuit lithic quarry use in the eastern Arctic. The first is the place of the LbDt-1 quarry in the established lithic reduction continuum on southern Baffin Island and to investigate how Palaeo-Inuit peoples structured their use of this site. The second...